“She has gotten to the point where her mind is carved out of steel. She is tired of everyone’s bullshit. If you give her crap, she’ll tell you to get lost. All she wants is quality people in her life, people that make her feel amazing. Not shitheads like you.”

A narrow house form, spans over the creek. Glazing each side opens the house to views in both directions, giving the feeling of living amongst the trees.

Two steel trusses forming the primary structure, were fabricated off site and erected by two men and a crane in two days. They were anchored by four small concrete piers, poured each side of the creek. Spanning between the trusses is a concrete floor slab on steel decking with a layer of rigid insulation. The “box” walling and roofing is plantation pine.

A life size steel-reinforced concrete sculpture of the world record holding giant squid discovered near Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada.

In 1878, fishermen near Glovers Harbour, N.L. caught themselves a whopper. They landed a giant squid that was 16.7 metres (55 feet) long, and was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest squid in the world. In 2001, to mark the occasion and increase tourism to the tiny Newfoundland hamlet, a replica was commissioned and built near the site of the squid’s capture.

We now know that these impressive animals can even be larger. It is said that the largest of these elusive giants ever found measured 59 feet (18 meters) in length.